Posted on 06/03/2004 5:13:53 AM PDT by Max Combined
Or a Broncos jersey.
Yep, even the executive director of the campus Black Recruitment and Retention Center can't recommend the school to blacks who want to get an education.
Obviously the administration is a pack of racists.
Ain't that the truth, APPY PAPPY.
BTW, I like your tag line.
"Especially if you happen to be of a skin color that makes you look more "stupid"."
What the heck does that mean?
Ask Bill Cosby.
I imagine that the poster was referring to how black students are looked at as being stupid just because they're black. I believe another poster in this thread was trying to say JUST that but with lots of big stupid words like 'behavioral disparities'.
"This black girl probably grew up in a black neighborhood and is in a white environment for the first time. Nothing wrong with her feeling intimidated."
By the numbers, she is in an Asian, not a white, environment for the first time.
There is nothing wrong with her feeling intimidated, but there is something wrong with her wanting Cal to admit more blacks so that she does not feel so intimidated. She should either work to get over her feelings of intimidation so that in the future she feels comfortable being in groups made up of various racial and ethnic groups or she should go to a school that has more blacks in its student population, if that is so important to her.
Probably more individual attention from Profs, anyway.
I hired a WASP guy out of Berkeley about 15 years ago from Indiana. He got his BS from Wabash State, his MS from Purdue and his PhD from Berkeley. He had a 3.9 on every course he ever took anywhere. His PhD was in theoretical chemistry.
"Virtually every part of the campus is extremely concerned about the low numbers of underrepresented minorities and, in particular, the appallingly low numbers of African-Americans," Strait said.
Are they underrepresented based on academic achievement? If so, then we have a problem. If not, then so what?
Without AA there is no reason to look at anyone at the same school with anything other than respect.
It is affirmative action that causes some to suspect that those from groups that receive affirmative action are not up to speed with those who do not get preferences in admissions.
I guess.
I wouldn't choose Berkeley myself --- so I can't blame the blacks who don't choose it. They should write an article on all the blacks who are working their way through college and you see them at the community colleges, here it seems to be a disportionate number of blacks in the community college --- many have jobs or are in the military and are doing just fine. Lots working in the hospitals too -- perfectly comfortably middle class.
You know hard working black students doesn't make for much news in the large liberal media.
I wrote underrepresented, not non-existent.
Sounds like you hired a bright guy. Did he work out for you?
I agree... but I've never looked down on anyone. I really don't care.
You would think that the large shift to middle class by blacks --- so that now something like 3/4 are middle class (depending on where you place the cut-off line), many from very humble backgrounds who in one or two generations moved into the middle class --- you'd think there'd be some news in that but they want to focus on the negatives.
They don't want to hear that. Unfortunately negative reports sells news.
Yup. He replaced me when I retired from TI. (They really did need someone a lot smarter than me to do that job, lol.)
TEN YEARS AGO: Robert is a black kid growing up in the Los Angeles suburbs. He's a good kid. He's no valdictorian, but he studies reasonably hard and makes mostly B's, with an A thrown in here and there. He has a good head for math and building things, and wants to become an engineer.
As a senior, he's not sure what to do. Berkeley hears about him, and gets him a plane ticket to fly to campus. Figuring it's a chance to see the bay area, he accepts. He is wined and dined by the Black Students League. Feeling at home, he puts in his appplication for Berkeley.
His SAT scores and grades are far less than the average for applying students. The Admissions Office adds many points for the fact that Robert is black.
Robert gets to Berkeley for his freshman year and starts taking intro. engineering classes. His classmates include Westinghouse Science Winners and people who had begun taking calculus in their sophomore year of high school. Robert doesn't have the background to keep up. He gets discouraged and fails out after one year.
TODAY: A boy named Dean has the same background as Robert. This time, Berkeley isn't paying for any plane tickets. Dean enrolls in U. Cal Irvine. He is now on a more even footing and keeps a B average in the introductory engineering classes.
Other than the sanctimonious bean-counters, who exactly is really helped by affirmative action?
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